Vision: A moment arrives when only intuitive developments exist<\/i><\/p>\n
an incipient death due to a bit of fun<\/i><\/p>\n
a situation that radiates no bitterness<\/i><\/p>\n
and yet there is endless hassle and every day a new thirst.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Kitchen Sink consists of fantastic bric-a-brac and scraps of theatre history piled up in a giant sink. On top of all this a mystery play has been assembled, about the everyday; about dreams, poetry, and the real.<\/p>\n
Dramaturgy and performance: Oxi Koskelainen<\/strong> and Emmi Venna<\/strong><\/p>\n Space and costume design: Daniel Palillo<\/strong><\/p>\n Lighting design: Kristian Palmu<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oxi Koskelainen <\/strong>Since graduating as a director from Uniarts Helsinki\u2019s Theatre Academy, Oxi Koskelainen has worked, for instance, as: Artistic Director at Ylioppilasteatteri \u2013 Helsinki Student Theatre in 2010\u20132013; convener and director of the Post-MJ Era Institute of Consciousness <\/i>performance group, which explored the state of the world after the death of the pop star Michael Jackson in 2014\u20132017; and as convener and performer in the Dayjob Collective <\/i>of contemporary musicians and performance artists founded in 2017. Koskelainen\u2019s most recent institutional theatre direction was the zombie performance Ep\u00e4kuolleet<\/i> (the undead) at Kokkola and Sein\u00e4joki City Theatres in 2019.<\/p>\n Emmi Venna <\/strong>works as a choreographer, performer, writer and as a part of curatorial teams. Venna\u2019s processes combine curiosity towards the experience of a lived body, researching dance and art histories, playing with fictions, and searching for the magical potential of the performance situation. Most recent works include the commissioned choreography CORE for the TaDaC collective (TeaK\/Zodiak 2021) and the solo work Fabulous Muscles (Mad House Helsinki\/Ehk\u00e4 production, 2020).<\/p>\n